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Detached multiple-bay single, two and three-storey International Style hospital, dated 1936, on a H plan. Long axis orientated east-west with a shorter lower entrance wing and a longer ward wing to the rear, originally single storey entrance wing, stepped elevation to the spine block and originally tiered storeys to rear wing extending nine bays each side of the spine. The modulated plane of the front elevation is retained with cantilevered concrete canopies on slim columns in front of the outer bays, the central bays have been raised by a storey concealing the original massing of the spine block with the stacks flanking a funnel-shaped roof-top access, the rear wing has been extended outwards at second floor level, the east gable has been wrapped around by a major two-storey twenty-one bay elevation, built c. 2000, in a sympathetic style including tall funnel-shaped towers, large single-storey flat-roof psychiatric hospital c. 2000 to the rear. Flat roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered white walls over a tall painted plinth and a raised and painted cornice, square headed windows and doors with wide raised stucco architrave surrounds. Replacement uPVC windows, several original metal frame windows survive at roof level.
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